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Carson Flora

@seaflora.bsky.social
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Union-side labor lawyer in Seattle

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Carson Flora @seaflora.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
If you want more American flags at protests, bring them and all your friends! You might disagree with some signs you see but that’s how you know you live in a free country.
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Carson Flora @seaflora.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
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The not-so-secret motive underlying Trump’s travel ban
If the ban were really about visa overstays, Spain would be on the list. What’s truly behind it? Racism and xenophobia, say Seattle-area immigrant rights activists.
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Fight For A Union @fightforaunion.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
EVERYBODY WATCH. ICE IS OUT OF CONTROL. Video of SEIU California’s President David Huerta getting assaulted & arrested during an ICE raid in the warehouse district of Downtown Los Angeles today. He’s an LA native, American citizen and labor leader. Don’t turn away.
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David Hogg @davidhogg.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
I think it’s time we stop taking advice from people who haven’t won an election in a year that starts with 2 also do it James- sue me.
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David Hogg @davidhogg.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
I’m proud to announce that Leaders We Deserve is endorsing Robert Peters for Congress in IL-02. He has passed over 120 pieces of legislation since joining the Illinois Senate in 2019. He knows how to get big things done, without sacrificing his values. Exactly what we need more of in Congress.
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Jill Hasday @jillhasday.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
On this day in 1898, Septima Poinsette Clark was born. She became a tireless advocate for education and civil rights. Martin Luther King, Jr. called her the “Mother of the Movement.” Her motto was “literacy means liberation.” www.scmuseum.org/learn/deeper...
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South Carolina Superheroes: Septima Poinsette Clark
Civil rights champion Septima Poinsette Clark was a real-life South Carolina Superhero. Read on to learn more about her amazing life.
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Carson Flora @seaflora.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
www.seattletimes.com/business/loc...
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It’s called ‘food apartheid’ and it’s happening in Seattle
In lower-income neighborhoods and neighborhoods with a higher percentage of Black or Hispanic populations, there is a lower availability of large food stores and healthy foods.
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Carson Flora @seaflora.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Thank you Nick Brown for upholding Washington law.
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Carson Flora @seaflora.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/09/u... Fed immigration officials are “essentially kidnapping people off the streets without due process,” Mr. Brown said. “I don’t want, nor does most Washington law enforcement want, to be involved in the sort of draconian actions that we’re seeing all across the country.”
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In Washington, a Rural County Sheriff Fights His State’s Immigration Law
Sheriff Dale Wagner of Adams County sees his department as David fighting Goliath. But he has the support of some of President Trump’s most influential allies.
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SweetWitch2697🔮🎱🪄-MY OPINIONS ARE MY OWN BEASTLY CONCOCTIONS! @sweetwitch2697.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
THIS IS FRIGHTENING! Rumeysa Ozturk wrote an op-ed. Before long, six masked ICE agents snatched her off the street. Rumeysa is a LEGAL resident, graduate student and SEIU union member. Use the tool below to send in your OWN op-ed DEMANDING her release! #4The1st social.demcast.com/s/WjmXWVli
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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
No matter your station in life, there is astoundingly little separating you from those men in that cage behind Kristi Noem. No charges, no attorneys, no hearings, no trial. Just conjecture and brute force could be enough to justify completely dehumanizing you, too.
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Innsmouth Looksmaxxing @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Today is the 35th anniversary of the Capitol Crawl, in which disabled activists discarded their mobility aids at the foot of the Capitol steps to climb them in support of passage of the Americans with Disabilities Ac. Jennifer Keelan-Chaffins, 8, told reporters "I'll take all night if I have to!"
Three people in sky blue shirts and jeans climbing the steps of the US Capitol, including a young blonde girl wearing a red and white bandanna around her head and turning to look at the camera
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Carson Flora @seaflora.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
www.seattletimes.com/life/outdoor.... Many trials risk becoming obliterated as downed trees and new vegetation erase any semblance of a trail
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Trump fired these 5 WA Forest Service workers. What their absence means for you
Many of the U.S. Forest Service workers fired by the Trump administration serve critical functions in the constant job that is maintaining outdoors spaces.
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Carson Flora @seaflora.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/06/b... “Coming from an authoritarian state…We also know that the Cultural Revolution was about dismantling institutions to expand control.”
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Many Chinese See a Cultural Revolution in America
People in China are expressing alarm at what seems to be an authoritarian turn in the United States, long their role model of democracy, that feels familiar.
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Carson Flora @seaflora.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
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Why some women of color find leadership 'treacherous'
Vanessa Priya Daniel's book "Unrig the Game: What Women of Color Can Teach Everyone About Winning" prompts difficult conversations about women and leadership.
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Manisha Sinha @profmsinha.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Watching this from afar this is all I can manage by way of commentary
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SEIU_ORG @seiu.org · 28/02/2025
Medicaid isn’t a handout—it’s a lifeline for millions. It covers 4 in 10 children, 1 in 4 adults with disabilities and 5 in 8 nursing home residents. Cutting it means putting lives at risk. We fight to protect it because healthcare is a right. seiu.co/4hQey0V
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10 Things to Know About Medicaid | KFF
At the start of 2025, many issues are at play that will affect Medicaid coverage, financing, and access to care. While Medicaid was not discussed much on the campaign trail, Congress may consider big ...
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Jessica Clarke @jessicaclarke.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Great opinion by District Judge Lauren King granting a TRO against Trump's lawless executive order attempting to intimidate hospitals into cutting off gender affirming health care for people under 19. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
A huge decision from Judge Amir Ali, meticulously reasoned and utterly scathing, finding that Trump’s foreign aid freeze is almost certainly an illegal and arbitrary abuse of power. He orders the immediate restoration of all international assistance. s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25...
Consistent with the reasoning above, it is hereby ORDERED that Defendants Marco
Rubio, Peter Marocco, Russell Vought, the U.S. Department of State, the U.S. Agency for
International Development, and the Office of Management and Budget (the "Restrained
Defendants") and their agents are temporarily enjoined from enforcing or giving effect to Sections
1, 5, 7, 8, and 9 of Dep't of State, Memorandum, 25 STATE 6828 (Jan. 24, 2025) and any other
directives that implement Sections 3(a) and 3(c) of Executive Order Number 14169, "Reevaluating
and Realigning United States Foreign Aid" (Jan. 20, 2025), including by:
• suspending, pausing, or otherwise preventing the obligation or disbursement appropriated foreign-assistance funds in connection with any contracts, grants, cooperative
agreements, loans, or other federal foreign assistance award that was in existence as of
January 19, 2025; or
• issuing, implementing, enforcing, or otherwise giving effect to terminations, suspensions, or stop-work orders in connection with any contracts, grants, cooperative agreements, loans, or other federal foreign assistance award that was in existence as of January 19, 2025.It is further hereby ORDERED that nothing in this order shall prohibit the Restrained
Defendants from enforcing the terms of contracts or grants.
It is further hereby ORDERED that the Restrained Defendants shall take all steps necessary to effectuate this order and shall provide written notice of this order to all recipients of
existing contracts, grants, and cooperative agreements for foreign assistance.
It is further hereby ORDERED that the Restrained Defendants shall file a status report by
February 18, 2025, apprising the Court of the status of their compliance with this order, including by providing a copy of the written notice described above.
The parties shall meet and confer and file a joint status report by February 14, 2025, at 5:00
p.m. proposing an expedited preliminary injunction briefing schedule.
AMIR H. ALI
United States District Judge
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
I honestly believe our most powerful position in a toxic time that feeds on cynicism, apathy,& despair is to genuinely care and act for a better world. Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO
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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 30/12/2024
Jimmy Carter putting his peanut farm into a blind trust reminds me of that time Donald Trump’s son-in-law took $2 Billion from the Saudis who murdered Jamal Khashoggi.
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Jen Bendery @jbendery.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
A bunch of progressive advocacy groups dropped off sleeping bags with Democratic senators yesterday. They attached a message to them: "Work late. Work weekends. Confirm every judge."
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Carson Flora @seaflora.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Leave no judge behind !
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Carson Flora @seaflora.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
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Separated at Birth: "In this House" Seattle Liberals and Project 2025
Seattle is a Trumpist safe space for single-family preservationists.
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Jeff Bezos makes over $14,000 in the span of time that a worker earns 50 cents.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
another woman is dead because doctors refused to give her standard medical care AFTER SHE ALREADY MISCARRIED. abortion bans are killing women even if they don’t need one. porsha ngumezi should be alive.
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A Third Woman Died Under Texas’ Abortion Ban. Doctors Are Avoiding D&Cs and Reaching for Riskier Miscarriage Treatments.
Thirty-five-year-old Porsha Ngumezi’s case raises questions about how abortion bans are pressuring doctors to avoid standard care even in straightforward miscarriages.
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Reader of Banned Books @readerofbannedbook.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
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AFSCME @afscme.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
The power of working people in action: 37,000 UC front line service and patient care workers are on strike! When we fight, we win ✊ www.afscme.org/blog/univers...
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University of California workers strike to protest what they call bad-faith bargaining
Members of AFSCME Local 3299 who work for the University of California system are on strike, protesting what they call their employer’s bad-faith bargaining.
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John Collins @logicallyjc.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Just thinking about how the expanded child tax credit would have lifted half our nation’s kids out of poverty.
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